Posts by Fivestar Crashtest

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Paid too much attention to my BOINC manager (Message 571487)
Posted 19 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Pam, I feel your need. I jus don't have the wherewithall to change OSs at a drop.
Where do you get all your drivers from ?



I'm stuck with whatever works out of the box. If one Linux doesn't play nice with what I have, then I try another. I've mostly used Ubuntu, but I've gone to openSuse 10.2 right now. My Central Complex consists of a 15 inch LCD screen and an Iogear four port KVM. This switch has worked great with any OS. I had a Zonenet four port that was mean to Linux, and it went on Ebay.

Last night when I installed Suse, it couldn't see my SATA drive. So rather than try a different colored sata port or google sata issues with bad axe 2 and opensuse, I grabbed a IDE drive from an old HP Pavillion someone gave me and installed on that. My basement looks like a computer junkyard.

Hiamps, I would love to see your computer screwed to the wall. Maybe we should have a Geek Porn image thread. :)
42) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Moderator or Member. Can We Be Both? (Message 571456)
Posted 19 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I leave Cafe moderation to those mods who hang around here.


Which must surely beg the question, why do you still be a mod if you have no real interest?


Chris, you might not know Pam, because she's not a Cafe regular, but she is very active on the NC board. And I think Pam is doing a great job there.



Thanks, Fuzzy. Yeah, I would say that's it, I'm at NC all the time and Questions and Answers some. But that would be a valid point, if one is a mod, should they patrol all the forums, or is it ok to just go to the ones they like and mod the problems they see?
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Paid too much attention to my BOINC manager (Message 571438)
Posted 19 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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But what I really want to know, keeping in tune to where this is posted, is there any real advantage to using XP PRO 64 as opposed to XP PRO 32.

What difference does it make apart from accessible memory ?





I am here guessing you are running 64 processors?
Well, you can run a longer instruction set. Map more memory. Or just do it for the coolness factor among Sethians (budding sethiholics). But remember that Win64 is so buggy that it will have more drawbacks than withdrawals;-)

Carl


For me, it was free Windows for four months. Linux optimized apps weren't as fast as Windows optimized apps, but the Lunatics gang has fixed that now, so I've returned to Linux on those machines.
44) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Moderator or Member. Can We Be Both? (Message 571429)
Posted 19 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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What do you think would be a reasonable method of selection? If you got to choose your mods, would that make it easier to accept their actions?


Possibly. But it's not likely we could all agree on a method of selection. You could have an open election with people standing and votes cast. But so few a percentage of crunchers post to make it truly representative. I still think personal reccommendation from existing mods is the best way to go forward.


Maybe democratic would be the way to go. The people who want the jobs would stand, and then the masses can make their decisions. Since it's about the boards, then only the participants of the boards matter anyway.
45) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Moderator or Member. Can We Be Both? (Message 571420)
Posted 19 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Ms Heinze . . . good of ya to coME out of thE woodwork . . . 'ow's Your Life trEatin' you?



I can't complain. I'm not much of a Cafe denizen, I'll look here when there's an email about it and the other mods get to discussing it. This was one of those threads, and I thought this was an interesting discussion. Since I don't come here, I leave Cafe moderation to those mods who hang around here.
46) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Moderator or Member. Can We Be Both? (Message 571398)
Posted 19 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I personally look at it like this; twenty plus people were made moderators. Through the process of elimination, the mods best suited for the job are still here.

Natural selection has not been at work here.
By our speaking up, we are asking for a reasonable method of selection.


What do you think would be a reasonable method of selection? If you got to choose your mods, would that make it easier to accept their actions?
47) Message boards : Number crunching : Paid too much attention to my BOINC manager (Message 570735)
Posted 18 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I was being silly when I created this thread and apologize.
That said, let's try to turn this into something constructive.
What would be the best types of questions and answers for this forum?
In other words, how can the obsessive compulsive checking of WUs in the BOINC manager (and perhaps comparing this to what is shown on the web), and complaining be turned into something positive?


Well, I enjoy silliness as much as the next person and this outage has made me as grumpy as anybody. On the plus side, I have everything reported and won't be stranding any work units on a host that will have Windows XP Pro 64 eval copy expiring this coming week. Kinda was sweating that one.

And I am a Setiholic. I bought my first computer because I heard about this project. I started building computers to crunch for this project. Who else could understand this obsession, but you, my fellow crunchers?

If we can't all huddle together by our oomputer monitor's warm glowy glowing glow, where are we supposed to go? I know, get a life, other projects. I am doing other projects, but they just aren't the same. I've put two quad cores in my farm this month and my RAC has gone down, down in flames! *sob*

Ok, I feel better, now. I know things will get better soon. Right?

Pam
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Paid too much attention to my BOINC manager (Message 570484)
Posted 18 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Yepp, you are a bonafide Satiholic.
Say after me...

"My name is Sarge, I am a Setiholic."

My name is Carl, I am a Setiholic.


Hi Carl, hi Sarge. My name is Pam and I am a Setiholic.
49) Message boards : Number crunching : Cruncher's Dream- Tyan T-650QX Personal Supercomputer (Message 564008)
Posted 9 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Here we go, five dual quad core Xeon boards in one box:

http://www.jrti.com/products/servers/tyan_t650qx.html

That would get your RAC up. 8D

50) Message boards : Number crunching : Does Einstein give more credit? (Message 562447)
Posted 7 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I know you get instant gratification, no waiting for pending because Rosetta has no quorum.
51) Message boards : Number crunching : Would this memory work on my PC? (Message 561573)
Posted 6 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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That would depend on your computer. You could go to crucial.com and download a small tool from them. It would scan your computer and it would tell you everything about it- what kind of motherboard you have and what kind and how much memory you can upgrade to.
52) Message boards : Number crunching : Kubuntu 7.04 Problem w/ Rosetta (Message 560625)
Posted 5 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Sorry to post a Rosetta problem on the Seti boards, but I know there are some very knowledgeable people here familiar with Kubuntu.

I have a fairly new clean installation (not an upgrade) of Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) that has been running Chicken's SAH Linux 2.2B app without problem. The CC is 5.8.16. After attaching to Rosetta however it seemed to be running VERY slowly. I found that the CC was starting the Rosetta app with NICE set to 19 and only using about 10% of processor time. Manually reniceing it to 0 restored normal speed so I assume that was the cause. The problem is that each new WU reverts to 19.

Does anyone know how to tell the CC to set NICE to 0 by default? And while we're at it, would you recommend a different NICE setting for a Boinc-dedicated workstation?




You might try removing powernowd with synaptics package manager. I had this problem when I first started using Ubuntu and this is how I got BOINC running full bore.

53) Message boards : Number crunching : i hate it when windows xp (Message 559089)
Posted 4 May 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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tells me my system has changed so much that i have to reactivate windows....
all i did was put in a wireless pci card.



I tore apart a computer today and installed a new processor and motherboard and I know they say you should do a fresh install of Windows XP but I didn't, I just slapped the hard drive back in there and had the product key handy for when it was going to ask to be reactivated....

and it didn't ask. It was a big change too, from AMD to Intel processor, NForce 4 to Nforce 650 chipset, ddr to ddr2 memory.

It's a mad world.

54) Message boards : Number crunching : Calling all Ubuntu Linux users... (Message 556441)
Posted 30 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I am using BOINC 5.8.17 with 64 bit Ubuntu 6.10 on an Intel 945 chipset.

Boinc manager is not working, so I am controlling this computer from another computer using BOINCview. I know I could do commandline, but I hate all that typing.



Pam, use 5.4.11 or earlier and then overwrite it with with augustines brand. The manager should then work. I have an issue with any version over that one with a lib problem. Believe it was lib64xxfm86vm1.so or similar. using an earlier boinc fixed that issue.


Thanks, Astro! :)

Pam
55) Message boards : Number crunching : Calling all Ubuntu Linux users... (Message 556153)
Posted 29 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I am using BOINC 5.8.17 with 64 bit Ubuntu 6.10 on an Intel 945 chipset.

Boinc manager is not working, so I am controlling this computer from another computer using BOINCview. I know I could do commandline, but I hate all that typing.

Before BOINC would work at all with 64 bit Edgy Ubuntu(6.10), I had to install 32 bit libraries. I did not have these problems with 32 bit Ubuntu, but I haven't tried that lately with more recent versions of BOINC.
56) Message boards : Number crunching : Sounds like the scheduler is down (2) (Message 553476)
Posted 25 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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I had to stop BOINC and reboot to get one host to get work last night. The others were fine.
57) Message boards : Number crunching : Yes or No (Message 549012)
Posted 19 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Yes.
58) Message boards : Number crunching : ISA 2004 server (Message 546677)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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Rosetta has some kind of problem this weekend, I have some stuck downloads from them too. Is this computer attached to Seti? Because your computer list shows a standard edition, but no premium edition server OS.
59) Message boards : Number crunching : minimum quorum: 2, initial replication: 3 (Message 546441)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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They've done that before, said "You must upgrade to x.x version or you will no longer get work". For Pirates you have to have 5.8.

Not yet: I’m running v5.4.9 on a couple of Macs that still get work from there, when it’s available. According to the most recent messages I have about 66 days left to upgrade.


Yes, you are right. I got one of those messages not long after posting that and scrolled over to read the whole thing. Oops.

60) Message boards : Number crunching : Quad Core crunching may become cheaper in Q3 (Message 546392)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Profile Fivestar Crashtest
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who?
White king: a1
Whitehorse: h4
black king: g8
BlackQueen: b8
BlackTower: a3

you conclude :)


The white king is hosed. I'm surprised Who? doesn't paint his chess sets green and blue. ;)

Pam


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